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This analysis was first available to Bloomberg Government subscribers. Spending on the U.S. General Services Administration's two main government-wide telecommunications contract vehicles, Networx Enterprise and Networx Universal, surged to a record $1.9 billion in fiscal 2017, according to a ...
The calendar marking Emily Murphy's time as the administrator of the General Services Administration read 120 days, and she wasted little time in putting her mark on the agency. Murphy moved around, named or made permanent 18 senior executives across the agency. Murphy was sworn in as GSA ...

That's why the General Services Administration is aiming to make the acquisition process for federal agencies more innovative. Although many of the GSA's initiatives are in their early stages, the agency is signaling that it wants to streamline acquisition and give agencies easier access to new technologies.
FORT COLLINS, CO (4/17/18) — Numerica Corporation – which develops intuitive law enforcement database software, crime analysis software, and analytics – announced today that it has been awarded an Information Technology Schedule 70 contract by the General Services Administration (GSA). The GSA is the premier ...
GSA unanimously passed a resolution to create new positions including the director of diversity, inclusion, and community engagement, which will work to better serve underrepresented graduate student groups, and director of administrative affairs, which is responsible for organizing graduate committee ...
General Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy shifted one of the managers of the agency's $50 billion next-generation telecommunications contact to another position in the agency's acquisition service and appointed a top manager for its Technology Modernization Fund. In an internal memo ...

Federal leaders charged with helping agencies apply a new way to better track IT spending said the process is already paying dividends. Officials from the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration, gathered Thursday at an AFFIRM event, said though the implementation of ...
The General Services Administration began alerting vendors on March 22 after it found a third-party changed the financial information of “a limited number” of contractors registered on the governmentwide System for Award Management (SAM.gov) portal. “Entities should contact their federal agency ...
ATLANTA - The U.S. General Services Administration has named a new regional administrator for the Southeast. Brian Stern will serve as the head of the GSA's Southeast Sunbelt Region. Stern will be in charge of managing federal properties spanning approximately 44 million square feet in 1,545 ...
The General Services Administration has opened its potential 10-year, $5 billion "VETS 2" IT services contract for business and is ready to accept task orders on the vehicle, GSA has confirmed to Washington Technology. VETS 2 -- short for Veterans Technology Services 2 -- was awarded to 70 companies ...
Some of the contractors for the General Services Administration's $50 billion, 15-year next-generation Enterprise Infrastructure Services telecommunications services contract are concerned time is growing short for federal agencies to make the shift to the new contract. The three-year transition period GSA ...
A commercial real estate developer has been appointed to oversee the Southeast region for the U.S. General Services Administration. Brian Stern will oversee all of GSA's operations in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including ...
The General Services Administration's inspector general is investigating fraudulent activity on its contractor and grantee registration website after someone ... “GSA's SAM team is supporting GSA's OIG in an active investigation into alleged third-party fraudulent activity related to SAM,” the notice said.
The General Services Administration has opened its potential 10-year, $5 billion "VETS 2" IT services contract for business and is ready to accept task orders on the vehicle, GSA has confirmed to Washington Technology. VETS 2 -- short for Veterans Technology Services 2 -- was awarded to 70 companies ...
Assessing Groundstar Resources Limited's (TSXV:GSA) past track record of performance is an insightful exercise for investors. It allows us to reflect on whether or not the company has met or exceed expectations, which is a great indicator for future performance. Today I will assess GSA's recent ...
Following instructions from Congress to create a new online shopping system leveraging existing commercial practices, the General Services Administration (“GSA”), in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), has released an implementation plan (“Plan”) to begin e-commerce ...
Another important piece of the emerging Federal IT modernization ecosystem is in place now that the General Services Administration (GSA) has given four companies the greenlight to start work on the first phase of five IT Modernization Centers of Excellence (CoEs). The CoEs are an integral part of the ...

Earlier this month, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled, in a case involving an FBI lease in Cleveland, that the General Services Administration doesn't need to strictly adhere to the terms of the lease prospectuses it must submit to Congress before it can launch a search for new space or sign a ...
The General Services Administration said it complied with a Congressional mandate to map out a plan that would let agencies start to buy the products they need via commercially-run, Amazon-like web platforms. But the agency said several changes still need to be made to federal acquisition law before ...
Federal buyers will have until this fall to use the General Services Administration's predetermined pricing/supply agreements to buy their wireless services from providers. In a March 6 blog post, Kay Ely, assistant commissioner in GSA's Office of Information Technology Category, said the agency has ...
The head of the General Services Administration said Tuesday she believes the potential $310 million in total requested for Tech Modernization Fund should be enough to spark successful modernization projects across the government. The recent omnibus bill approved $100 million in appropriations for ...
General Services Administration officials Friday outlined their plan to help agencies better buy goods and services online, detailing prospective legislative changes needed to establish e-commerce portals. GSA partnered with the Office of Management and Budget to release the first of a three-phase ...
Just 30 minutes after the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology asked what is the state of federal IT during its hearing Wednesday afternoon, the General Services Administration offered a timely update. GSA said it awarded five contracts for phase one of the ...
The General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget, which are charged with putting the buying scheme into practice, asked Congress for new legislation to allow the federal government more leeway as it tries to mesh consumer-focused online buying with the high-regulation ...
The General Services Administration announced March 14, 2018, that it made five awards for the first phase work in the Centers of Excellence program occurring ... to improve citizens' lives,” said Chris Liddell, assistant to the president and director of the American Technology Council, in a GSA press release on the award.


 

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